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"A data pipeline is a general term for a process that moves data from a source to a destination. ETL (extract, transform, and load) uses a data pipeline to move the data it extracts from a source to the destination, where it loads the data" (Jake Stein).
"Avoid building this yourself if possible, as wiring up an off-the-shelf solution will be much less costly with small data volumes" (Nate Kupp).
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A definitive guide to data definitions and trends, from the team at Stitch.
- Analytics
- Big data
- Business intelligence (BI)
- Common table expression
- Data analytics
- Data architecture
- Data engineering
- Data enrichment
- Data exploration
- Data ingestion
- Data integration
- Data lake
- Data migration
- Data mining
- Data modeling
- Data pipeline
- Data preparation
- Data science
- Data visualization
- Data warehouse
- Data Wrangling: Definition and Examples
- Database
- Deduplication
- ELT
- ESB - What is an Enterprise Service Bus?
- ETL
- ETL pipeline
- Information lifecycle management (ILM)
- Machine learning
- Master data management (MDM)
- SaaS
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
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